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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 27 km SSE of Teshikaga, Japan


Earthquake location 43.2381S, 144.5739WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Teshikaga in Japan on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 127.831 km (79 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/09/24 / 2024-09-15 17:14:24 / September 15, 2024 @ 5:14 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ne3a. Unique identifier: us7000ne3a. The temblor was picked up at 17:14:24 / 5:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 144.5739° East, 43.2381° North, depth 127.831 km.

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Abashiri, Kitami, Nemuro. Epicenter of the event was 33 km (21 miles) from Kushiro (c. 183 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kitami (c. 113 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Abashiri (c. 42 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Bihoro (c. 23 000 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Shibetsu (c. 21 700 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 27 km SSE of Teshikaga, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.5739° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.2381° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 127.831 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27 km SSE of Teshikaga, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-15 17:14:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-15 18:07:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 284 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.608 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 166 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000ne3a Id of event.
Event Code 7000ne3a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ne3a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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